Emotional Blackmail
Power is
poison he said. There is no denying Rahul Gandhi has suffered personal losses
of a grave nature. I have read two people who have analysed his public sharing
of this grief and how he himself is a target for terrorists. One is Shobha De, the queen of muddled
emotions, who believes RG is right in bringing up his personal sorrows to his
audiences and why he deserves our sympathy. De quotes him: “My family has suffered and sacrificed a lot in the service of
the nation. I could be the next target. I urge you to shun violence. Save the
country and vote for the Congress”. So you see, because my family has
suffered you should vote for Congress. Simple! Okay! The other one is Sandip Roy in FirstPost who
suggests we are no more in the age of sacrifice. And he hilariously writes: “Sacrifice circa 2013 means Sheila Dikshit having no onions
with her bhindi for weeks. It means Sonia Gandhi weeping because she is unable
to vote for the Food Security bill she was so passionate about. It can even
mean a buff Robert Vadra never getting to show off his gym-toned muscles in
India because he apparently never gets to relax in a t-shirt here”.
Clearly,
De’s muddled wailing is nothing but an opinion while Roy’s is more of an
assessment. But both of them stop short of asking some blunt questions. So what
if your Dad and Daadi were killed? Who
the hell are YOU? What is it that
makes YOU? What is YOUR story?
If I have a background of personal losses, of tragedies it is possible that
people may sympathise with me. But if I ask you to invest in me you would
certainly want to know what I have accomplished despite those personal losses
and tragedies. It is here that RG’s story false flat. Considering he was born
into a power-family he did not have to struggle for anything because of those
personal losses. He wasn’t left an orphan. He wasn’t left to scrounge for
himself. He wasn’t left begging on the streets. What has he accomplished? Nothing! Absolutely nothing!
Terrible
truth is RG has conducted himself more like a Shehzada hopping from one country to another. After 26/11 he was
reportedly partying. On hearing about Uttarakhand he ran off to Spain. Did his
personal losses teach him anything? Did it motivate him to appreciate power
better than his ancestors? No! In fact the moron has been reported indulging in
loose talk with an American diplomat claiming Hindu extremists are more
dangerous than LeT. Have his personal
losses built a strong character in him? It doesn’t appear so. This is where
the RahulG story fails. If he had borne those personal losses and shown himself
to be a man of work and accomplishment he would have earned the respect for
himself and his dead family members rather than “demanding” it of people at his rallies. Even as an MP his
parliamentary attendance and performance is pathetic. Not one person has ever
heard him talk about serious issues like inflation, defence, security, economy
etc. But hey, they killed my Daddy and
Daadi so vote for me.
Sample this
emotional blackmail and victimhood; almost every Congi was up in arms at RG
being called ‘Shehzada’ by Narendra
Modi. Let’s not even argue about how many names the Congis and their criminal alliance
partners in the media have called Modi. Their spokie Rajeev Gowda protested on TimesNow that Shehzada had “communal overtones”. Really? Does
whining get any worse? That’s the lamest thing he could come up with? Communal
overtones? And Yuvraj is not
communal? Because that is something the media has been calling RG for a long
time. What about Prince or even Clown Prince? Only Shehzada has
communal overtones? So it’s plain to see, whine
about some mundane nonsense and play victim. The Congi cronies in the media
don’t even ask these questions. They too wallow in self-pity for the clown
prince. The Congis whining is so funny, it is like Jim Carey, the lying lawyer
in ‘Liar Liar’, telling the
woman who has committed adultery seven times that she is the victim.
Almost all
of advertising pitches are emotional. A majority of personal purchase decisions
are emotional. Surely, you don’t believe “daag achche hai”, do you? Abraham
Lincoln was killed but nobody in the US says he spilled his blood for his
country. JFK was killed but nobody says he spilled his blood for his country.
Nobody in the US says these two presidents made “sacrifices”, do they? But this emotional blackmail is ingrained
into our politics by none other than the original Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi used the technique of fasting unto death partly as
emotional blackmail. The fake Gandhis do it better and even more routinely.
IndiraG once said she would not regret if every drop of her blood was spilled
for the country. Yet, she was one of the biggest dictators this country has
ever seen. Very few talk about the background of the killings of IndiraG and
RajivG. Let’s talk about it.
Operation Bluestar which was conducted under
IndiraG is a sad chapter in Indian history. The storming of the Golden Temple
to nail one guy was certainly excessive. Lot has been written about it.
Bhindranwale is known as a monster created by IndiraG herself. But what is not
often discussed is that post Bluestar many Sikh soldiers deserted the army. Some 2000 Sikh soldiers reportedly
deserted. Some were killed and some were tried. We don’t know what happened after
that. But given that emotions were running high and some Sikhs wanted IndiraG’s
blood she continued to retain her Sikh bodyguards despite security advice
against it. She didn’t listen. Her
decision to retain them was noble but it was also emotional. The tragedy could
have been avoided if she had been a little more rational. RajivG went on to get
close to people and mingle and shake hands against the advice of his security.
There was every possibility that post the SriLankan intervention he would be attacked
or killed. He didn’t listen.
Is Rahul
Gandhi listening? Haven’t you heard already that he has often sneaked up to
places without knowledge of CMs? Haven’t you heard that he often breaks
security rings to mingle with people? Does
he listen? No! Threats exist against quite a few politicians which is why
they need to stick to security routines. If there is one thing that RG should
learn from his Daadi and Daddy it is that he should stick to these security
advices and routines. He has shown signs that he hasn’t learned even that. In a leader, the personal grief and sorrows
are expected to make him stronger and not whine for pity and sympathy. But
our story-writers in the media and history writers are great at making
emotional rescues. Sonia Gandhi declining the PM chair was hailed as a great
“sacrifice” when it turns out that there might be other reasons and she found a
great puppet to fiddle with.
It is this
sympathy that got Congress the votes in 1984 and 1991. In the absence of
performance, in the face of excessive corruption all that RG wants is to draw
on emotions and hope some sympathy for him will get the votes for Congress
again. My life has been a series of
tragedies, please vote for me. He doesn’t want to talk about the
institutions that SoniaG, he and the Congress have destroyed. Which brings us
to an important question: Did the
Congress ever really believe in Democracy? Since IndiraG took charge there
has been no democracy within the party and I dare say the Congress has
consistently destroyed democracy in the country too. Like I said in the first
part, there is a two-pronged tactic; fear-mongering
and emotional blackmail/victimhood. So
they call their opponents fascists, communal, Hitler and all of that because
Modi has rattled them and threatens their grip on power. When asked about it,
BJP spokie Meenakshi Lekhi bluntly told TimesNow that it’s Sonia’s father who was a Nazi who supported Fascist ideology.
That is nothing but a fact. One could say that is hereditary for her but what
about her predecessors?
In the next
part we will examine how the ‘Chinese
Gandhis’ (as Balbir Punj calls the fake Gandhis) destroyed democracy. There
is nothing in this Congress’ DNA that remotely suggests they stand for
democracy. The only democratic procedure they follow in India is vote
collection. This time around, they are more desperate than ever in that
attempt. Everything else is a Banana for them.
To be continued...
